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At Gravetye Manor in West Sussex, the same garden path that carries the morning's harvest to the kitchen leads guests to dinner at dusk. Photo courtesy of Gravetye Manor.

English Countryside Travel: Manor Houses, Private Gardens, and Sussex Sparkling

The gardener is out before breakfast, a shallow wooden trug on one arm, working along a row of rainbow chard while dew still beads on the box hedging. Sweet peas go into the basket last. By evening, the chard is on a dinner plate and the sweet peas are on a guest's nightstand, cut from neighboring rows of the same walled garden.

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Jodi Howe

Oct 56 min read

At Hepple Spirits in Northumberland, the moorland gives up its botanicals by hand, one plant at a time. Image courtesy of Hepple Spirits.

The Unexpected Glass: Britain's Wine and Gin Experiences Worth the Journey

Britain has long been synonymous with one kind of glass — the amber kind, raised in a stone-walled distillery somewhere north of Inverness. That heritage is real, and we've written about it in depth. But Britain's drinks story has grown well beyond amber-colored glasses, and the experiences now available to travelers in England and Wales are worth a journey of their own.